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Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America
Ben Carver
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This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios-referred to here as alternate histories -proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that discovered improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship ... Read more
This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios-referred to here as alternate histories -proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that discovered improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137573339
SKU
V9781137573339
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About Ben Carver
Ben Carver is Associate Lecturer in English at Falmouth University, UK. He was awarded his doctorate from the University of Exeter in 2013 and since then has been teaching and researching nineteenth-century literature and culture. He is now studying the circulation of conspiracy beliefs and narratives, which is part of the COST-funded Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories project. ... Read more
Reviews for Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America
It communicates a great deal more about the shape and texture of the nineteenth-century intellectual and literary landscape. It is an intelligent and admirably comprehensive study that is sure to find an appreciative audience among scholars in and around the humanities. It will be a special treat for sf fans eager to learn about the complex conditions out of which ... Read more